SOURCE: KREMLIN.RU
28 October 2020
RUSSIA PROVOKES TURKEY IN SYRIA’S IDLIB Russian aircraft have carried out a strike – the bloodiest surge in violence – in the stronghold of Syria’s rebel forces, also targeting rebel proxies siding with Turkey. What Russia has done might prompt the escalation in Syria’s Idlib. Perhaps Russia seeks to get upsides with Turkey over the latter’s involvement in the AzerbaijanArmenia fighting.
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ebel groups promised Russia to take revenge on the airstrikes that killed 78 insurgents. Following the Russian airstrike, the rebels slaughtered at least fifteen supporters of Bashar al-Assad. On October 26, more than 78 people were killed and 90 wounded when Russian warplanes targeted a training camp of the Faylaq al-Sham faction in the Jabal Duwayli
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area in the town of Kafr Taharim, some 10 kilometers far from the Turkish border. Failaq al-Sham is a Sunni Islamist faction whose members fight in the Turkish military offensive in Syria and are also believed to be present in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. The National Liberation Front, an umbrella group of Ankarabacked rebels based in Idlib that includes
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